Best cinnamon tea cake recipe. This tea cake is light, moist, fluffy and perfect for morning or afternoon teas. It's simple, easy to make and you will love this delicious cinnamon cake recipe.
Measure out all the ingredients and bring butter and eggs to room temperature. Lightly grease the cake pan and line with parchment paper. Set aside
In a bowl add the flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Mix and set aside.Break the eggs in a separate bowl, add in the milk and whisk. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl add butter and sugar and cream with mixer till it's pale in color, light, and fluffy. This takes about 15 minutes.
Add the egg and milk mixture into the creamed butter and sugar and mix with the mixer for 1-2 minutes. Add in the flour mix and fold in with a spatula, when it has come together, use the electric mixer to whisk for few seconds.
Add the cake batter into the prepared cake tin and bake in the oven at a temperature of 170C (150C fan oven) for 30 minutes or till cake tester when inserted comes out clean.
Bring out the cake from the oven, leave in the cake pan for 3 minutes then turn onto a cooling rack to cool.Mix icing sugar and cinnamon together and dust it on top of the cake.Serve and enjoy delicious cinnamon tea cake.
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It's best to measure the ingredients with a weighing scale for accurate results.
Bring the eggs and butter to room temperature
If flour is lumpy, sift it before use.
Don’t rush the creaming process, cream the butter and sugar till it’s light and fluffy so you have light, fluffy cinnamon cake.
Bake cake in the middle of the oven for the best heat distribution.
If you don’t have self-raising flour you can make it at home by adding a teaspoon of baking powder to every 125g of plain (all-purpose) flour.
Do not open the oven in the first 20 minutes while the cake is baking.
Cool cake on a cooling rack as this helps with air circulation that prevents steam from gathering on the bottom of the cake.
Cinnamon sugar dusting is optional.
Storage information and other tips are in the post.